Category Archives: New South Wales

Since 1958, the Australian Good Design Awards have been handing out accolades for the best Australian products and designs. While some of the winners such as the black box flight recorder and the bionic ear changed the world, others, such as the Decor wine cask cooler, the Stackhat and the Victa lawnmower, are nostalgic reminders of domestic Australian life in the 1970s and 80s. Entries for this year’s awards close on 9 March and winners will be announced on 12 April

Kurri Kurri, a mining town west of Newcastle, let its hair down for Mulletfest 2018

“Last call for rangas! Rangas, last call!”

Word goes round the front bar of the Chelmsford Hotel, an old-style beer barn on the corner of Kurri Kurri’s main street, and there’s a flurry of activity. The third round of the inaugural Mullet festival is about to begin, and contestants and spectators are ready to get serious.

Nobody focuses on the housing market crisis in quite the same way real estate photographers do

Paint peels off the living room walls to reveal galaxies of colour and mould. Piles of clothes, receipts and detritus disintegrate under piles of dust, above floors that barely exist. A rusty shower head watches over a scum-soaked bath, as pale pink tiles rot around it.

All artfully lit, and gorgeously shot, in high definition by professional photographers. Real estate agents are showing gallery-worthy documents of a market in crisis.

The Cambodian prime minister has vowed to beat up protesters if they burn effigies of him at a summit of South-East Asian leaders in Sydney next month.

Hundreds of Cambodians living in Australia are expected to rally against Hun Sen when he attends the summit between Australia and the 10-member Association of South-East Asian Nations [Asean] in mid-March.

A small Australian town is laying claim to the title of being the country’s home of the mullet by hosting a festival to celebrate the hairstyle that’s all about business at the front, party at the back.

The inaugural Mullet Fest in Kurri Kurri, 150km north of Sydney, will honour the best cuts in five categories – everyday, grubby, “ranga” (red hair), women’s and junior. Entrants will be judged on haircut, overall presentation and stage presence.

Malcolm Turnbull responds to ‘shocking error of judgment’ by deputy PM, who had a relationship with a former staffer who is now pregnant

Australia’s prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, will move to ban sexual relationships between ministers and their staff, in response to a scandal which has engulfed the deputy prime minister and leader of the National party, Barnaby Joyce.

Turnbull announced the ban at the end of a parliamentary week dominated by controversy over Joyce’s relationship with a former staffer, Vikki Campion, which began when Sydney’s Daily Telegraph published a front-page photograph effectively confirming the end of Joyce’s 24-year marriage, and Campion’s pregnancy.

The tax will apply from Thursday and go towards $250m taxi industry compensation

Uber has urged users in New South Wales to complain to the state’s transport minister about the introduction of a $1 tax on the company which comes into force on Thursday and is likely to be passed on to customers.